I read about how interesting life was before the Flood. How many mysteries, myths and secrets envelop her. A little information about the water screen that surrounded the earth, that there were no clouds in the sky and no precipitation, and the steam rising from the ground irrigated the earth. About discharged and saturated oxygen in a double volume, as in a pressure chamber, higher atmospheric pressure. (I think it took that kind of pressure to hold such a bubble over the globe.) The water shield created greenhouse conditions on earth, and therefore the tropics and subtropics were everywhere - even at the north and south poles. Sunlight scattered, and harmful radiation from space did not penetrate the earth. Accordingly, if part of the water soared between space and the atmosphere, then we can assume that there was much more land on earth, the water level in the world's oceans was much lower. There were no deserts, and the vegetation was rough. There is also a version that the water screen was held by steam, which came from the fact that the Earth's orbit was closer to the Sun.
People, animals and plants were gigantic in size. They ate exclusively plant foods, because in those conditions and in that climate, the calories from such food were enough to live and work. This information is supported by the facts of finds during archaeological excavations: giant human skeletons, as well as giant skeletons of birds and animals, plants, fossilized insect prints, for example, a dragonfly with a meter wingspan. There are photographs of the remains of giants on the Internet, perhaps some of them are fake, but there is a lot of information about such finds, and here is one of them:
How gigantic - we can assume that the growth is somewhere around 3 meters. Sometimes giant people are called giants, and their great growth is explained with a quote from the Bible:
Judging by the text, not all people were giants, but only a part of them. There are two hypotheses: one hypothesis speaks of the "sons of God" as fallen angels. If you think about it, how is this even possible? One involuntarily recalls the plot of the films: "The Sky over Berlin" and its sequel: "City of Angels" … But this is the fantasy of the scriptwriters - nothing more. In fact, Angels are spirits - they do not have flesh, matter, DNA. How can a disembodied woman with a fleshly woman have children? And fallen spirits are demons, devils in other words. Tradition says that their appearance is terrible and ugly. How can human women agree to marry such a creature, looking at which can die of fear?
Christian tradition says that angels, unlike humans, are perfect in choosing between good and evil. The author of the article "Is it true that angels entered the daughters of men" Valentin Shamara writes that "the union between a woman and an angel" contradicts the words of the Gospel:
Here, it is also said that often in the Holy Scriptures righteous people were called the sons of God:
Accordingly, it can be assumed that such people were called "sons of God" not only after the coming of Christ and his preaching, but also long before … (all this is also in the conversations on the book of Genesis from John Chrysostom). covenant.
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John Chrysostom, Ephraim the Syrian and many other theologians believe that the descendants of the righteous Seth, keeping faith in one God, married pagans, idolaters - the daughters of Cain. And the consequence of such unions can be expressed in the phrase:
The corruption took place gradually, changing generations, until people completely forgot their Creator.
According to the chronology of the Bible and not difficult calculations, the beginning of the Flood falls on about 3247 BC. e. This means that from the creation of the world to the flood, people lived for 2262 years. The calculations were made according to the ancient Greek translation (Septuagint).
Over the years, “People have multiplied greatly on the earth” (Genesis 6: 1). Some researchers believe that at that time the earth was inhabited by several million or even billion people! With such a life expectancy, it was not surprising to multiply so over 10 generations. By the way, Noah was born in the 10th generation.
And of course, in 2262, high technologies could certainly have been developed. Perhaps that civilization was ahead of the pace of development and was in many ways more advanced in technology than our civilization after the flood. For such a number of years, you can master so much, invent a lot, and you do not need to often transfer the knowledge gained, the accumulated experience. generations are far from being replaced so quickly. Can you imagine if scientists Einstein, Nikola Tesla and others lived for 900 years? In theory, science would be striding forward by leaps and bounds. They would not have invented such a thing during this time. I would not be surprised if that civilization flew on sophisticated aircraft - such as saucers, had a semblance of a modern Internet network and cellular communications, and maybe even something that today's science fiction writers never dreamed of.
But this is only so far versions, hypotheses, guesses and our fantasies. It would be interesting to see some artifacts of that time, confirming this hypothesis of such a high development, but alas. If there were such, they would certainly have been classified by the governments of the countries and the military.
How did the flood happen? Scientists, seeing traces of the flood and not knowing how to explain it, put forward a hypothesis about the Ice Age, and about the end of this period - the melting of these very glaciers. Moreover, the approximate dates put forward by the scientific world do not at all coincide with the biblical ones. (Perhaps the Darwinian orientation in science affects) But the scriptures speak not of glaciers, but of rain. There is a hypothesis that the water dome, located above the atmosphere, broke through the fall of about 3-4 large meteorites to the Earth. Thus, at the same time, shifting the axis of rotation of the earth by several degrees. The once-possibly inhabited continent of Antarctica turned out to be exactly at the South Pole. Satellite imagery found the alleged impact craters in the world's oceans, which are visible from space.
Then water poured from the sky for 40 days and 40 nights. It looks like the streams of water rushing to the ground did not pour everywhere throughout the earth, but in certain places, driven by a strong wind, Where there were heavy rains, the soil was washed out. During this time, people naturally tried to understand why the water level in the seas rises. Surely they tried to go higher, to escape, but huge waves appeared - tsunamis. The water arrived until it covered the tops of the highest mountains, and then, evaporating and diminishing for a long time, washed away the entire civilization into the world ocean. Except for Noah and his family, of course.
An even trace of Noah's ark was found on Mount Ararat in Armenia. Traditionally, it is considered that this place is the pier of that very ship:
From such a cataclysm, the face of the earth should have changed a lot - perhaps where there are now deserts - there used to be seas, and a single continent was divided into five continents and various islands, because the places of connections were flooded. So, for example, North America was previously connected with Eurasia, if you look at the map of the world, the supposed places of connections will be clearly visible - highlighted areas of the world ocean. Naturally, the water level in the world's oceans has risen, flooding some parts of the land. This is how the Bosphorus Strait was formed between the Mediterranean and the fresh Black Sea - the lake. After that, the Black Sea became salty.
Most likely, this is how the Persian Gulf was formed, and many others.
Has anything survived to this day from those civilizations? Quite possibly. Below I will give the traces of ancient civilizations found by scientists, which supposedly could exist before the Flood:
1. "Ubeid" (Ubaid) civilization was located in the region of Mesopotamia and dates back to about 4400-4300 BC. e.. In fact, it is not known what it was called, it got its name from the found Ubaid temple in Iraq. The Ubadians left behind strange figurines: women with lizard heads - which could be used as idols, or for magical rituals, as well as pottery painted with monochrome patterns, temples with animals, brick houses, remnants of an irrigation system in the Tigris region and Euphrates.
This suggests that construction, culture, art, and agriculture were developed. It is known that civilization was destroyed by a flood, because artifacts were found under layers of sea silt.
2. The Cuban underwater city was found at a depth of 600-750 m with an area of about 12 square meters. km. Fragments of palaces and squares, roads, pyramids have been preserved. All structures are built of huge granite blocks from 2-5 meters, which means that they are megalithic. On some of the columns, mysterious drawings and inscriptions were found that have not yet been deciphered. Cuban Atlantis resembles Teotihuacan in Mexico. It was built about 6,000 years ago. At that time, Cuba was part of the continent and connected with it in the area of the Yucatan island.
3. Underwater city Yonaguni (Japan) - similar to the Cuban Atlantis. It is located at a depth of 20 m. The age of the city is dated to about 12,000 years. The city also has palaces, castles, temples, houses, roads, a stadium and a huge pyramid. All this is also built of granite megaliths and is well preserved. In the Japanese Atlantis, scientists have found statues or monuments, one of them is similar to the Egyptian sphinx, the other in the form of a huge stone head, presumably an idol, as well as inscriptions and symbols such as hieroglyphs on individual structures. All structures are large in scale, including the steps of the stairs - as if the city was built for giants. The dates of the Cuban Atlantis and the Japanese are different. But it seems to me that after all these cities are of the same era, because the similarities are obvious: granite blocks, architecture and construction technology.
4. The ancient village of Atlit Yam, in Israel. The object dates from the period from 6'900 to 6'300 BC. The village is located near the coast of Atlit near Haifa. Atlit-yam is immersed in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 8 - 12 m. Its area is 40 thousand square meters. m. Under the water found ancient foundations of buildings, a stone altar, similar to Stonehenge. Near the altar there are ruins of buildings, a large number of burial places and a narrow corridor, an altar for sacrifices, a well. From artifacts: ancient arrowheads and spears used for hunting, double-sided axes for cutting trees, as well as needles with which they sewn nets to fish. The remains of domestic animals were found in the well: cows, sheep, pigs. Here, human skeletons are exactly the same size as today.
Looking at all this, we can conclude that a distinctive feature of civilizations were megalithic structures such as Stonehenge and pyramids, like the Mayan or Egyptian pyramids. To hone the huge blocks of granite required special construction equipment and technologies that are still unknown to us. The feeling that the pyramids themselves in Giza and in the “Sunny City” of Mexico had nothing to do with the Maya and the Egyptians - just a legacy from that civilization that was misused, maybe I'm wrong. This is just a guess.